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Legal Momentum Blog

Welcome to Legal Momentum's Blog.
We write about stories and issues that relate to our mission.
Our Intern Team also posts about issues important to them, offering discussion and insight regarding women's equality and opportunity.

High-ranking officials of FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, have been indicted for corruption. FIFA's illegal activities don't stop there, however. Rampant gender bias exists at every level of FIFA, from the top down. This multi-billion dollar powerhouse deliberately excludes and discriminates against women. It's time for that to end.

The Senate’s failure to confirm Loretta Lynch as US Attorney General because of partisan disagreement over an important bill on human trafficking is a sad irony. Lynch has been a top leader in the fight against human trafficking during her tenure as US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

The Supreme Court’s decision in Young v. UPS has several things going for it. Most importantly, it upholds the key principle of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) by making it clear that pregnant workers cannot be treated worse than other workers. Consistent with that principle, it precludes employers from unjustifiably excluding pregnant workers under a policy that already accommodates many of their colleagues.

Legal Momentum's 10th annual Women of Achievements Awards Dinner took place at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco on March 5. The awards honored seven outstanding women who have reached the top of their professions in business, law, and public service. This year's honorees were Connie Collingsworth, General Counsel and Secretary, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Marie Oh Huber, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, RA/QA and Corporate Relations, Agilent Technologies; The Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel, Federal Judge (retired), U.S.

Legal Momentum has authored a letter to Senator Charles Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee chair, and Senator Patrick Leahy, ranking member of the Committee supporting the confirmation of Loretta Lynch as the next U.S. Attorney General. Legal Momentum supports Ms. Lynch because in her illustrious career in law enforcement she has always made protecting the most vulnerable members of our society a hallmark of her tenure.

The White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault releases its model memorandum of understanding for colleges and law enforcement.

Good news: Last week the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault issued its long-awaited model memorandum of understanding (“MOU”) on how universities and colleges should work together to handle campus sexual assault.

Last week in Washington, DC, the City Council began considering a bill that would ban suspensions of pre-schoolers. While the pre-school set can get up to a fair amount of rowdiness, we should wonder why pre-schoolers might ever be suspended and what kind of interventions could alter this reality.

On January 22nd, the House of Representatives marked the 42nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that gave women the right to choose whether to carry a pregnancy to term, by passing a bill that permanently restricts federal funding for abortion. The only reason the bill was not even more draconian is that women GOP lawmakers revolted against the bill’s more severe provisions at the last minute. If there was ever any reason to doubt the importance of electing female legislators, the GOP congresswomen dispelled it with this action.